April 20, 2021
Capacity Assessment
For Lawyers
NEW!
Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacities: A Handbook for Lawyers, 2nd Edition
Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacities: A Handbook for Lawyers, 2nd Edition by the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and the American Psychological Association is a new and improved second edition of the original that offers trust and estate lawyers, elder law attorneys, family lawyers, health lawyers, and general practitioners a conceptual framework and a practical system for identifying and addressing problems of client capacity, including how to work effectively with clinicians when needed. Vistit the ABA book store for more details and to order:
https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/411701219/ Recieve a bulk discount of 20% off 50 or more copies using the code AGING20.
PRACTICAL Guide-A Guardianship Practice Tool
This resource guide aims to help lawyers identify and implement decision-making options for persons with disabilities that are less restrictive than guardianship. “PRACTICAL” is an acronym for nine steps lawyers can use in case analysis to identify legal and practical approaches to heighten self-determination before moving ahead with guardianship. Learn more about the PRACTICAL Guide and Tool
Developing Dementia Capable Legal Professionals (Hawaii Training, Feb. 2015)
- Streaming video (with slides)
- Agenda
- Introduction
- Ethics
- Protecting Individual Rights
- Planning for Incapacity
Legal Issues and Alzheimer’s Webinar Series
- Part 1: For Legal Professionals Working with People with Dementia and Assessing Client Capacity by Erica Wood, Esq., and Jane Tilly, DrPH (November 2012)
Competency: Reforming Our Legal Fictions
by Charles Sabatino and Suzzanna L. Bassinger, Journal of Mental Health and Aging, pp. 119- 144 (2000).
For Judges
Judicial Determination of Capacity of Older Adults in Guardianship Proceedings
This book contains practical tools to equip a wide audience of judges to conduct any form of guardianship proceeding more effectively. Includes links to expanded information, work sheets, and model forms. 2006.
- Publication pdf (49 pages)
- Publication pdf, with appendices (94 pages)
Printed copies are no longer available.
For Physicians
New Online Course for Primary Care Physicians and Other Clinicians on Assessment of Capacity of Older Adults
Rush University Medical Center and the Commission on Law and Aging have released an interactive online education curriculum on assessing the capacity of older adults, funded by The Retirement Research Foundation. The course is timely because demographic, technological, medical and other vast changes affecting medical professionals are making capacity assessment a growing challenge. The curriculum is aimed at physicians but valuable for all health care clinicians and students. A press release with more details is available here.
Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists
This handbook is designed for psychologists evaluating civil capacities of older adults. 2008. 146 pp.
Printed copies are no longer available.
Articles
Evaluating the Capacity to Drive, by Erica F. Wood, Bifocal, Vol. 37, No. 4. March – April 2016
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